And in typical Le Bris fashion, Sunderland's head coach says he isn't thinking about going up against the likes of Pep Guardiola and Arne Slot, and is instead focusing on the immediate challenge of preparing and improving his side ahead of the start of pre-season and the August kick-off.
Le Bris says promotion has given Sunderland "new impetus" and the Frenchman is relishing the challenge ahead, undeterred by the struggles of the teams that have gone up from the Championship in the last two seasons.
"We are talking about the NBA of football, but it is an exciting challenge and we like challenges," said Le Bris in an interview with the media in Italy.
"I am not scared, I remain convinced that it must be a collective effort: we want to build a strong team, a strong staff, a strong structure. Maintaining our values, I think, is what will allow us to be successful.
"In the Premier League, many newly promoted teams are relegated in their first year. It will be difficult, but it is a great challenge and we are optimistic precisely because we know we have a solid club behind us and, above all, extraordinary fans who will support us.
"After four years in League One and four in the Championship, we needed this new impetus: the Premier League gives us new oxygen. We will work hard to be competitive.
"Opta gave us less than a 5% chance of finishing in the top six and a 25% chance of being relegated back to League One [last season]. We managed to overturn the predictions with the work on the pitch and with the strength of an extraordinary group, which used the common energy to obtain great results."
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Le Bris was asked what it will mean to go up against the likes of Liverpool, Manchester City and their high profile managers.
"The way I am, I don’t worry too much about the future or the consequences," he said.
"I always take it one day at a time, trying to understand how I can improve the team at this precise moment.
"I think about one minute at a time, and it will be the same when we have to face Liverpool."
It was a year ago this week that Le Bris was appointed Sunderland's head coach, and the 49-year-old says he's felt welcomed and wanted from day one.
"During the pre-season camp in Spain, 2,500 of them came to watch a friendly," he recalled.
"The first time I met them was in front of the official club shop, when the new shirt came out. There was a 100-metre queue, with people waiting there since the morning to buy the shirt. They didn't know me, I was almost a stranger."
And he was also struck by what was said in his first meeting with Sunderland's players 12 months ago.
"At the first meeting I asked the lads what, in their opinion, had brought them to be there, at that moment, at the pre-season camp," he says.
"Everyone responded by talking about the common desire to go to the Premier League. These are words that you hear often, but in this case the words were combined with facts, sacrifice, the desire to really get there, all together."